Posted at 5:33 pm on Aug 12, 2019

DES MOINES — With the Iowa State Fair attendees taking the measure of 2020 Democrats, some say they're increasingly concerned about former Vice President Joe Biden's verbal gaffes and mistakes on the stump.

"Well, I like Biden, he just keeps saying dumb stuff. He feels comfortable in interviews, but his staff just needs to really consider what they're letting him say," said George Alberson, a 62-year-old retiree. "People I know still like Biden. Whether that's predicated on the facts, I have no idea."

Since arriving in Iowa last Wednesday Biden has stepped on his own message of condemnation about President Trump, tempered with words of reconciliation.
On Thursday Biden spoke at an Asian and Latino Coalition Town Hall and conflated low-income students with racial minorities.
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids — " Biden said, before quickly correcting himself, “ — wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.”
Biden's campaign even had to release a statement of clarification, saying he "misspoke and immediately corrected himself during a refrain he often uses to make the point that all children deserve a fair shot, and children born into lower-income circumstances are just as smart as those born to wealthy parents."
That same day Biden misspoke again, saying Democrats like him choose "truth over facts," in what was muddled version of a standard campaign refrain.
The next day, Biden made the erroneous claim that he was vice president during the 2018 Parkland shooting, going as far as to say he even met with the kids personally in Washington, D.C.
"Those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president," he told reporters.
Still, while Biden's gaffes had journalists buzzing, many of the vice president's older supporters thought the attacks were unfair.
"People are taking his words out of context. They're holding the fact that he worked for the Obama administration against him," Sally Hendrenson, 60, told the Washington Examiner at the Iowa State Fair Monday. "He can do the job."
Iowa has traditionally not treated Biden well. In 1987, his first White House run was doomed after he was caught copying phrases from a British politician during a speech at that year's state fair, leading to a series of negative news stories about his record which helped sink his campaign.

In 2008, Biden dropped out of the presidential race after finishing in fifth place behind Barack Obama, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Richardson with 0.09% of the vote, despite months of campaign in the Hawkeye State.

The lesser of two evils is still evil. You still choose one evil. You're not just self insulting,

Posted at 2:22 am on Aug 13, 2019

you're also insulting most voters. Because at least about half of total voters only have 1 evil - the candidate they vote against is the evil, the candidate they vote for is not evil, Nothing more stupid than you vote for a person you think is a retard and evil.

Mueller's staff would put Biden in jail for a "lie" like the one Biden told about Parkland.

Posted at 8:37 pm on Aug 12, 2019

Well, they might have put him in jail if Biden were a Republican, and they thought they could get to Trump by putting him in jail for a lie. Indeed, such a lie would seem to warrant a late night raid, with CNN in tow.

Freedom consists of the distribution of power, and despotism in its concentration.

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Here is a Trump gaffe...except it was not a gaffe

Posted at 6:19 pm on Aug 12, 2019

Here the president of the United States is either (1) revealing highly classified info or, what is much more likely, (2) just talking out of his ass because we have never had anything as stupid as this missile system the Russians are trying to develop.

The speed of the delivery is unstoppable and thus the impetus, and if what you say were true, then

Posted at 8:19 pm on Aug 12, 2019

They never know what Trump is thinking which makes his threats more significant.
What they think they know is always shaded with some doubt. This will give them pause either way.
And yes, it appears that they have had another nuclear disaster trying to achieve it.

Didn't we just do that?...take down an ICBM that is (in a test, of course)?

Posted at 8:47 pm on Aug 12, 2019

WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency is deeming the first salvo test of its homeland missile defense system against an intercontinental ballistic missile threat a success, according an agency statement.
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In the Monday test, the lead GBI destroyed the ICBM’s reentry vehicle “as it was designed to do,” according to the agency’s statement.

The trailing GBI “then looked at the resulting debris and remaining objects, and, not finding any other reentry vehicles, selected the next ‘most lethal object’ it could identify, and struck that, precisely as it was designed to do,” the statement adds.

The ICBM target was launched from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which is over 4,000 miles away from the GBI interceptors buried in silos in the ground at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.